Norton Anthology of World Religions

Norton Anthology of World Religions
Author: Cunningham, Lawrence S
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Total Pages: 15
Release: 2015-02-18
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0393918998

This magisterial Norton Anthology, edited by world-renowned scholars, offers a portable library of more than 1,000 primary texts from the world’s major religions. To help readers encounter strikingly unfamiliar texts with pleasure; accessible introductions, headnotes, annotations, pronouncing glossaries, maps, illustrations and chronologies are provided. For readers of any religion or none, The Norton Anthology of World Religions opens new worlds that, as Miles writes, invite us "to see others with a measure of openness, empathy, and good will..."

Unprecedented in scope and approach, The Norton Anthology of World Religions: Christianity brings together over 150 texts from the Apostolic Era to the New Millennium. The volume features Jack Miles’s illuminating General Introduction—“How the West Learned to Compare Religions”—as well as Lawrence S. Cunningham’s “The Words and the Word Made Flesh,” a lively primer on the history and core tenets of Christianity.

Understanding World Religions

Understanding World Religions
Author: George Braswell
Publisher: B&H Publishing Group
Total Pages: 291
Release: 1994-01-12
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1433669129

Understanding other religions is no longer an academic, ivory tower exercise. In this timely and important book, Dr, Braswell provides an introduction to the major world religions, as well as many of the minor ones.

Early Judaism

Early Judaism
Author: Martin S. Jaffee
Publisher: Eisenbrauns
Total Pages: 296
Release: 2006
Genre: History
ISBN:

An analysis of the world view, the various religious and cultural ideas, rituals, and customs in Judea that gave rise to Christianity, Rabbinic Judaism, the Therapeutae, and the Essenes. This book introduces the complex reality of Judaism in ancient times using an approach grounded in the interdisciplinary framework of the comparative study of religions. The aim of the book is to immerse students in theoretical problems regarding the interpretation of religious life as they master the diverse details of the forms of Judaic religion that thrived in antiquity.

Judaism for the World

Judaism for the World
Author: Arthur Green
Publisher: Yale University Press
Total Pages: 406
Release: 2020-09-22
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0300256000

An internationally recognized scholar and theologian shares a Jewish mysticism for our times Judaism, one of the world’s great spiritual traditions, is not addressed to Jews alone. In this masterful book, Arthur Green calls out to seekers of all sorts, offering a universal response to the eternal human questions of who we are, why we exist, where we are going, and how to live. Drawing on over half a century as a Jewish seeker and teacher, he shows us a Judaism that cultivates the life of the spirit, that inspires an inward journey leading precisely toward self-transcendence, to an awareness of the universal Self in whose presence we exist. As a neo-hasidic seeker, he is both devotional and boldly questioning in his understanding of God and tradition. Engaging with the mystical sources, he translates the insights of the Hasidic masters into a new religious language accessible to all those eager to build an inner life and a human society that treasures the divine spark in each person and throughout Creation.

The Hutchinson Encyclopedia of Living Faiths

The Hutchinson Encyclopedia of Living Faiths
Author: Robert Charles Zaehner
Publisher: Hodder Education
Total Pages: 456
Release: 1988-01-01
Genre: Religions
ISBN: 9781859862186

This text presents an easy-to-use and comprehensive encyclopedia of living faiths.

Religious Traditions of the World

Religious Traditions of the World
Author: H. Byron Earhart
Publisher: Harper Collins
Total Pages: 1724
Release: 1992-10-09
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9780060621155

Now in one volume: the ten volumes of the outstanding Religious Traditions of the World series. Written by leading experts, these individual studies explore the richness and variety of important religions from around the world.

Judaism and the World's Religions

Judaism and the World's Religions
Author: David Bamberger
Publisher: Behrman House, Inc
Total Pages: 164
Release: 1987
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 9780874414615

Basic facts about the major religions of the world are given with special emphasis on comparisons with Judaism

A Spectator's Guide to World Religions

A Spectator's Guide to World Religions
Author: John Dickson
Publisher: Lion Publishing Plc
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2008
Genre: Buddhism
ISBN: 9780745953083

The world is a very religious place. Wherever you look, people are worshipping, praying, believing, following, even dying for their faith. But are all faiths the same? Do they all call on the same God using different names? Are their beliefs and practices simply cultural expressions of the same spiritual longings? In this timely book, John Dickson presents each of the world's major religions in its best light. He carefully outlines the history, belief systems and spiritual practices of Hinduism, Buddhism, Judaism, Christianity and Islam so that the interested 'spectator' can explore their similarities and differences. For sceptics, believers and students of religion the book provides a fair and friendly introduction to this ultimate subject.

Understanding World Religions

Understanding World Religions
Author: Irving Hexham
Publisher: Zondervan Academic
Total Pages: 513
Release: 2011-03-22
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0310314488

Globalization and high-speed communication put twenty-first century people in contact with adherents to a wide variety of world religions, but usually, valuable knowledge of these other traditions is limited at best. On the one hand, religious stereotypes abound, hampering a serious exploration of unfamiliar philosophies and practices. On the other hand, the popular idea that all religions lead to the same God or the same moral life fails to account for the distinctive origins and radically different teachings found across the world’s many religions. Understanding World Religions presents religion as a complex and intriguing matrix of history, philosophy, culture, beliefs, and practices. Hexham believes that a certain degree of objectivity and critique is inherent in the study of religion, and he guides readers in responsible ways of carrying this out. Of particular importance is Hexham’s decision to explore African religions, which have frequently been absent from major religion texts. He surveys these in addition to varieties of Hinduism, Buddhism, Judaism, Christianity, and Islam.

The World's Religions

The World's Religions
Author: Huston Smith
Publisher:
Total Pages: 422
Release: 2017-03-29
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9784871872225

This book has seven basic chapters: Hinduism, Buddhism, Confucianism, Taoism, Islam, Judaism, and Christianity. These he calls the "Major Historical Religions." They all have sacred texts. This book was intended to be a brief survey without an in-depth analysis. A new section was added to The World's Religions. It is entitled "The Primal Religions." It describes a broad sweep of religions such as those practiced by the Australian Aborigines, by the Native American Indians of North and South America and the religions of the interior of Africa. Huston Smith's masterpiece explores the essential elements and teachings of the world's predominant faiths, including Hinduism, Buddhism, Confucianism, Taoism, Judaism, Christianity, Islam, and the native traditions of Australia, Africa, Oceania, and the Americas. Emphasizing the inner--rather than the institutional--dimension of these religions, Smith devotes special attention to Zen and Tibetan Buddhism, Sufism, and the teachings of Jesus. He convincingly conveys the unique appeal and gifts of each of the traditions and reveals their hold on the human heart and imagination.